The Walking Dead topped the October 2017 Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart provided exclusively to ICv2 by NPD BookScan (as is usually the case in October as the new season kicks off), and also accounted for four slots of the 20. Notably, two of The Walking Dead volumes were not collections of comics from the regular series; they were both editions of Here’s Negan, a hardcover collection of comics from Image+, Image Comics' monthly promotional magazine. The regular edition came in at #4, and the Barnes & Nobel exclusive hardcover was just a few slots lower at #7.

Two new titles with the potential to be on the list for a while took the second and third slots in October. The new Roz Chast graphic novel, Going into Town: A Love Letter, took the #2 slot; Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant was on the chart for months a few years back. And Dark Horse’s Overwatch: Anthology Vol. 1 came in at #3, powered by Blizzard Entertainment's hot multiplayer online first-person shooter, which now has over 35 million players.

Other 2017 hits were also doing well, with Everybody’s a Aliebn on the chart for the fifth consecutive month, and The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up staying on the chart for its fourth month.